The E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System replacement and the next-generation trainer aircraft will likely be the Air Force's first two programs to put new acquisition reforms into practice, service Secretary Deborah Lee James told a Wall Street investment conference Dec. 2. From now on, the Air Force will conduct a cost-capability analysis before firming its requirements for major new weapons systems to inform capability tradeoffs and drive affordability, James said in her keynote speech at a McAleese-Credit Suisse...
